Over the last decade, universities have been undertaking more industrially oriented research in addition to their traditional role of fundamental science. This new opportunity offers a new range of exciting research problems and gives students an exposure to real-world issues, but it can require a change in the way that university researchers (and their industrial sponsors) approach problems. A...

Wavelet Shrinkage de-noi si ng i s appl i ed to El ect rophoret i c Nucl ear Magnet i c Resonance (ENMR) data. Both threshol d rul es for removi ng noi se, namel y sof t and hard, proposed i n Donoho's Vi suShri nk are used simul t aneousl y. Sof t t hreshol di ng i s appl i ed to ne l evel s of wavel et decomposi t i on coe ci ent s and hard threshol di ng to coarse l evel s. Thi s impl ementa...

We describe a facility that enables routine type checking during the linkage of exter nal declarations and de nitions of separately compiled programs in ANSI C The primary advantage of our server style type checked linkage facility is the ability to program the composition of object modules via a suite of strongly typed module combination opera tors Such programmability enables one to easily in...

Uno dei contributi presentati in un recente convegno di educatori HCI (Human Computer Interaction), svol-tosi a Limerick nel Marzo di que-st'anno, ci ha proposto un interroga-tivo che, al di là del contenuto del-l'articolo stesso, ben rappresenta lo stato d'animo di una buona parte degli educatori HCI di impostazione tradi-zionale: "HCI education: We are failing why ?" Nello specifico Edwards, ...

Developers increasingly use streaming languages to write their data processing applications. Whilea variety of streaming languages exist, each targeting a particular application domain, they are allsimilar in that they represent a program as a graph of streams (i.e. sequences of data items) andoperators (i.e. data transformers). They are also similar in that they must process large ...

I.P. Pavlov Saint Petersburg State Medical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia Results and discussion. Full management of vertebrogenic pain syndrome in is achieved in 85–90% of hospitalized patients and 92–95 % in ambulatory patients. Tradi-tional methods of pain relief helped to manage pain syndrome in 36% and 39%. Remote results of treatment were studied. It is determined that the duration ...

4 CONTENTS 4 Subspace and DoA estimation in large sensor networks 69 4.1 Statistical model and classical subspace estimation. . Mireille, et également Caroline pour sa bonne humeur de tous les jours, Emilie et Jean-Christophe. Line Fonfrede et Patrice Herault méritent amplement des remerciements, pour leur aide et leurs grandes compétences dans les domaines administratif et informatique, respec...

Control and Optimization of Power Systems with Renewables:Voltage Regulation and Generator DispatchbyBaosen ZhangDoctor of Philosophy in Engineering-Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesUniversity of California, BerkeleyProfessor David Tse, Chair The electric power system is undergoing dramatic transformations due to the emergence ofrenewable resources. Howeve...

This thesis develops new algorithms for object detection in still images. As a start¬ ing point the particular case of face detection is investigatedseeking improvements which can be generalized to other object types. For improving face detection, one possible way is to search for a better representation that is used within the tradi¬ tional detection paradigms. However, since face detection re...

the west asia-north africa region, which is characterized by a typical mediterranean climate, is the center of origin of cereals, notably wheat (triticum spp.) and barley (hordeum spp). however, cereal production, which is primarily rainfed, is mainly constrained by drought due to the low rainfall accompanied by high temperatures. cereals have been tradi-tionally grown following a fallow period...